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...Jorge Valenzuela, one of the project leaders, estimates that about half the town’s residents use it....
...But the talks come to nothing after Farc rebels kidnap senator Jorge Eduardo Gechem....
...Named La Paloma, it is owned by Jorge Henao and his wife, Maria Elena — Capurganá bar owners who wanted a bolt hole because they fear civilisation will collapse....
...After six days we pitched up in Medellín, once home to the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar, but now better known as the City of Eternal Spring, because of its year-round sun....
...“Sport is an undeniable source of optimism, but it is short-term optimism, it is not something structural,” explains Jorge Tovar, professor of economics at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, who also...
...His first stories were written under the influence of Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine writer, but he emerged from under that spell to develop his own inimitable voice....
...At dusk, as Medellín comes into view round a hairpin bend on the airport road, I recall a line by the local novelist Jorge Franco, in which “tiny lights encrusted in the mountainside twinkle like stars”....
...The central bank president, Jorge Corvalán, however stays on, as does Sergio Escobar, president of Petropar, the state oil company....
...Like his friend Carlos Alberto Cano, who started out as a “pony” for the druglord Pablo Escobar, Mr Barrada soon ended up in a criminal gang, and after a stint in prison, he was scooped up into the ranks...
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